Few regions in the world have known so little freedom as Bosnia, now
part of Yugoslavia. For centuries it was brutally governed by the Turks
of the Ottoman Empire. When the Turks were driven out toward the end of
the last century, the Austrians moved in for 40 years. The Nazis took
over in 1941, and the Communists in 1945, each adding its own
refinement to the art of oppression. Out of this blood-soaked,
soul-scarred land, a writer...